The Associated Press reports: “Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are teaming up to sell some of the online advertising space that they have had trouble selling on their own. The alliance announced Tuesday represents a joint attack on Google. The Internet search leader has become an even more powerful force in Internet marketing since paying $3.2 […]
[Read More]

Seattlepi.com’s Scott Sunde reports: “Microsoft is reportedly considering a bid to buy Yahoo. But the Redmond company apparently won’t be going it alone, The Wall Street Journal says. The Journal reporting Microsoft is working with Silver Lake Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment board on a proposal.” Read more on seattlepi.com.
[Read More]

Microsoft is reportedly looking at buying Yahoo – again. From Reuters: Microsoft Corp is considering a bid for Yahoo Inc, resurfacing as a potential buyer after a bitter and unsuccessful fight to take over the Internet company in 2008, sources close to the situation said on Wednesday. Just this week Yahoo announced an online news […]
[Read More]

The big news Friday afternoon was that Yahoo’s executives have all but admitted that the company is up for sale. Sort of. Well, Yahoo’s directors are at least weighing their options. As Chairman Roy Bostock and cofounders David Filo and Jerry Yang wrote in an internal memo, Allen & Co. is helping Yahoo by “fielding […]
[Read More]

Microsoft and Yahoo have been implementing their search-advertising partnership for more than two years now with limited success. Bing now powers Yahoo search in North America and the two companies share advertising sales and revenue, but there have been technical roadblocks and Google still brings in the lion’s share of online-ad cash. So Microsoft and […]
[Read More]

Microsoft and Yahoo have started transitioning Yahoo search in Europe to Bing’s back-end technology as part of their search alliance, the companies announced Wednesday. Organic search results will soon be powered by Microsoft’s Bing platform in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Bing already powers Yahoo search in the U.S., Canada, Australia, […]
[Read More]

It’s time for Microsoft to give up on Web search and sell off Bing, a Reuters analyst opines. But he may be missing the whole picture. First, let’s hear Robert Cyran’s argument (as syndicated on NYTimes.com): Microsoft needs to concentrate on a different kind of search: finding a buyer for Bing, its online search business. […]
[Read More]

Yahoo’s board of directors might finally be open to the idea of an acquisition – or at least another change in leadership – and the most likely scenario involves Microsoft, All Things Digital reports. Sources are telling ATD’s Kara Swisher that several key Yahoo board members are “willing to entertain any legitimate offers or ideas […]
[Read More]

Yahoo has seen a shortfall in revenue from its search-advertising partnership with Microsoft and has delayed deployment of the transition internationally, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said Tuesday. She blamed Microsoft for technical issues with its search-advertising platform, adCenter, that have given Yahoo worse-than-expected “returns per search,” or RPS, Bartz said during Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings conference […]
[Read More]